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Civilization Is Merely An Advance In Taste: Accepting, All The Time, Nicer Things, And Rejecting Nasty Ones.

There Are Inquiries Which Are A Sort Of Moral Burglary.

What Passes For An Original Opinion Is, Generally, Merely An Original Phrase. Old Lamps For New - Yes; But It Is Always The Same Oil In The Lamp.

The Principle Of Fashion Is . . . The Principle Of The Kaleidoscope. A New Year Can Only Bring Us A New Combination Of The Same Elements; And About Once In So Often We Go Back And Begin Again.

When The Temperamental And Unconventional People Are Not Mere Plagiarists Of Dead Eccentrics, They Lack, In Almost Every Case, Thehistoric Sense.